My husband and I met on OKCupid and just last night we were talking about how different it was for girls and guys on the site.

So now may not be a good time to admit that I have finished all my Christmas shopping for the year? The final gifts are in the Amazon basket just waiting for payday next week. My goal is to be done buying gifts by November. (I'm a bit ahead this year) Everything that needs mailed is sent before Thanksgiving. I figure,…

Yeah. I live in an area where rent is cheaper and we chose a cheaper place to live. $80,000 would be about 10 years of rent. I hope this young man uses that money wisely.

so I pushed play and my cat, who has been curled up by my feet for a good hour, jerked awake and began pacing all over the couch searching for the kittens. Certain kitten noises agitated her more than others, but she was clearly concerned and kept looking at me as if to say, "Why are you still sitting there? Can't you…

I have a friend who is allergic to parsley. She makes sure, no matter where she is, no matter what the dish, to tell them that she is highly allergic to parsley and under no circumstances should her food include or be garnished with parsley. We eat out often and this is a regular mantra and yet...you guessed it...her…

I don't remember doing this, but apparently I used to eat matchheads. My mom said she would get so upset with me because they would go to light a candle or something and fall all the matchheads had been eaten off. I have no idea what I liked about them, but by the time real memories had begun to stick, I had stopped.

I had the same thought. Also, there is plenty of room in my life for both seriousness and fluff. I use the fluff as relief from the heaviness of the things that make me upset. I read news stories about Yazidi women being sold as wives to ISIS fighters and I know that there isn't a goddamm thing I can do about it.…

Mine would be:

Truth be told, it wasn't that difficult. I have a fear of needles and they gave me some pill to take before heading for the hospital. I don't remember a blessed thing. My memories go from falling asleep the night before to waking up in the recovery room demanding some water. I wasn't even in a lot of pain, just sort…

I had breast reduction surgery nearly 10 years ago and I was so excited to go shopping at Victoria secret. When I walked in, the sales woman offered to measure me and told me that I was a DDD. "The hell I am," I replied. The poor sales lady looked confused, as if this "news" should have made me happy. "I just paid…

I don't think every woman can pull them off. At least...I can't. I look and feel like a sausage in them. Who can wear them to work? Eight hours in too tight pants while at my desk? ugh. They are uncomfortable, too tight, and a nightmare (ie unwearable) for 3-5 days out of the month. I threw out my last pair of skinny…

I should have clarified this before, but it isn't that they don't stay up (if you can find a bra that fits), it was that they are not perfectly round and bulge out on the top. Implants create that effect. I had breast reduction almost ten years ago (funny enough, when I was 24) and not even reduced boobs have that…

That was my first thought too. Real boobs don't look like that...not even when you are sixteen. I was her exact size at sixteen and they looked completely different.

Really? Because I have lived here (in Durham, NC) for 22 years and I have never in my life seen anyone act or speak this way. Ever. Not in private or public. Common? Who the heck were you friends with? Also, good job generalizing that an entire state is full of racists.

Okay. So after reading this, I watched the video again to make sure I didn't actually know this horrible human being because I live in Durham. Thankfully, I have never seen her before in my life.

Other than melons, I think all fruit is yummy. (as long as it is ripe) I would agree with you about tomatoes, but just last week my downstairs neighbor brought me some tomatoes from his garden and I put them in my salad (two things that would not have happened three months ago) and I loved them. I loved them so much…

Probably not. Some of us (their friends) have broached some of these issues before and their responses have varied between, "All loving parents would do this" to "We'll stop once they are older" to "You're not a parent so what would you know?". When I said something about how I had read that it is important to expose…

That's what I fear too. If everything, even the things in your house are bad and scary, what must the world seem like?

I used to live in Boston and I feel the same way. I dreaded when the "musicians" would follow us onto onto the train. Especially because they usually started passing around a hat afterward, wanting money and you are stuck with them as they give you the stink eye for not putting something in the hat. Please, go away. I…

I figured their kids probably would walk into the table. Might even get hurt. But they probably wouldn't do it again.